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General information Athlon X4 840 Core2 Duo E8300
Launched Q1 2015 Q4 2008
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket FM2+ LGA775
Series Name AMD Athlon X4 Intel Core 2 Duo
Core Family Name Kaveri Wolfdale
Clock 3.1 GHz 0 % 2.8 GHz 9.7 %
Cores 4 0 % 2 50 %
Threads 4 0 % 2 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 W 0 % 65 W 0 %
Lithography 28 nm 37.8 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 2 × 96 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 32 kB Instruction
2 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 2 × 2 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Athlon X4 840 Core2 Duo E8300
Overall Score 38273 0 % 28335 26 %
Future Proof 46 % 0 % 10 % 78.3 %
Benchmark Score 2146 0 % 645 69.9 %
Single Thread Score 1501.4 0 % 1068.6 28.8 %
Encrypting Data 4949 MB/s 0 % 1477.8 MB/s 70.1 %
Compressing Data 55 MB/s 0 % 19.1 MB/s 65.3 %
String objects sorting 6558.6 thousand/s 0 % 2859.8 thousand/s 56.4 %
Prime numbers generation 13.1 millions/s 0 % 8.1 millions/s 38.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 19631.9 millions/s 0 % 4383.8 millions/s 77.7 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 5424 millions/s 0 % 2449.4 millions/s 54.8 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Athlon X4 840, Core2 Duo E8300.

Average frames per second Athlon X4 840 Core2 Duo E8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 68.4 FPS 39.5 FPS
High settings 109.5 FPS 63.2 FPS
Medium settings 136.8 FPS 79.0 FPS
Low settings 171.0 FPS 98.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 42.3 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Athlon X4 840 Core2 Duo E8300
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 118.0 FPS 100.5 FPS
High settings 188.8 FPS 160.9 FPS
Medium settings 236.0 FPS 201.1 FPS
Low settings 295.0 FPS 251.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 14.8 %
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